In addition to predictable tenets such as "White Supremacy" and "Protection of our pure womanhood," the "Stands For" column includes "Separation of Church and State" and "Freedom of speech and press." The "Stands Against" column includes "Religious...

A resolution from Workers Ex-servicemen's League, Staten Island Post No. 174--a branch of an international veterans organization with ties to the Communist Party. Reacting to the Haywood Patterson verdict at the March 1933 trial in Decatur, the...

A telegram from workers in Harlem signed by "Committee of Five." The telegram requests protection for Eugene Williams and Roy Wright from "lynch mobs gathering near Decatur, Alabama" before their June 22 trial in Juvenile Court as well as the...

In the message Wallace requests that the president withdraw federal troops from military bases near Birmingham, Alabama, where they are on standby. He blames Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights demonstrators for the violence in the city,...

2010-04-23

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